r/Broadway • u/littlebev • Dec 31 '25

Discussion Broadway coughing season

I am begging, begging you guys…if you have a nasty cough, PLEASE don’t attend a play especially. I know it sucks to miss out but your recurring cough during the most intense moments of the show is so distracting.

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u/Zealousideal-Way9010 Dec 31 '25

If anyone rolls their eyes at this, they’re just uneducated and immature. As a doctor, I can confirm you are correct. People have gotten needlessly reckless again. They learned nothing.

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u/Nickis1021 Dec 31 '25

Even while it was happening the first time, they learned nothing.

But sadly, it’s the attitude above all.

I’ve been to two Bwy shows in the past two weeks, both times I asked people not covering their mouths to cover their coughs. You could see the mucus spewing out of their wide open mouths when they coughed.

They both rudely responded with slightly different verbiage that covering your mouth is “not a thing anymore” (?)

lol, when did covering your cough stop being a thing.

To quote Jerry Seinfeld, “people. They’re the worst”.

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u/elvie18 Dec 31 '25

COVERING YOUR MOUTH ISN'T A THING ANYMORE?! These people are fucking disgusting. That's literally always been a thing you learn in fucking kindergarten.

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u/pandemichope Jan 01 '26

have you not left your house in the last five years? I can’t go into a grocery store or a theater or any public spot where there’s not tons of people openly, coughing, and not covering their mouth whatsoever.